FIEE News and Press, UBS AG FI Enhanced Europe 50 ETN due February 12 2026 From 08/06/22

Europe agreed on a multi-year - arguably multi-decade - investment fund for energy transformation and the digitization of the economy. A common energy policy has been in discussions for decades, but the energy crisis might prove to be acute enough to necessitate a rapid response. We&#...

Why European countries like Germany may be facing a natural gas crisis this coming winter. Europe's natural gas crunch as countries rethinking their production strategies. Supply worries are changing the global natural gas landscape. The price of natural gas coul...

Global economic growth slowed to a crawl in July, according to the latest PMI survey data, led by the developed world falling into contraction for the first time in two years. Emerging market growth as a whole consequently remained broadly resilient at one of the fastest rates seen ov...

Central banks retain a heavy hand in these markets. The Fed is pushing back against the dovish interpretation of the July meeting, while the ECB started intervention in peripheral bond markets through PEPP reinvestments. The Fed should ideally be in tune with the market mindset, e...

Global equity markets went into a protective crouch last quarter, and factor performance followed suit. The collapse in Consumer Discretionary and/or Technology stocks was a dominant driver of global factor performance in Q2. The Quality premium versus Value has returned to its lo...

Output fell in the United States, Eurozone, UK and Japan, while mainland China saw a reduced rate of expansion and the rest of Asia as a whole likewise mustered only modest growth. The global manufacturing PMI survey's Output Index signaled stalled production in July. The worsenin...

The second quarter was dominated by negative market sentiment amid worries over skyrocketing inflation and the risks of a global recession. The broad market selloff over the past few months led almost all markets to finish the second quarter with negative returns in U.S. dollars and l...

We don’t expect the slowdown in economies to result in a deep global recession. A repeat of the big increases in bond yields we saw in the first half of the year is unlikely. In this environment, higher quality credit is more attractive. Despite increasing pressures on prof...

Central banks in major economies expected as recently as a few months ago that they could tighten monetary policy very gradually. Central bank actions and communications about the likely path of policy have led to a significant rise in real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates on gover...

EU member states are expected to embark on national campaigns to reduce gas consumption in the household and commercial sectors, to mitigate the impact on the industry. European gas demand curtailment would have major adverse impacts on the industrial sector, particularly the refining...